The class looks at different media forms for telling stories. The goal of the course is to investigate in a studio/lab atmosphere how to communicate effectively using language-based and visually-oriented forms. The class includes theoretical and literary reading assignments as well as a series of production workshops. The skills the students will practice include short-fiction writing, screenplay writing, producing video and 3D animation. This fall the class focuses on Augmented Reality Game (ARG) design.

The focus of the class is analysis and application in communication across media. Now more than at any point in our culture, we engage in multiple forms to express ourselves and share information. These media span written language to all form of visualization and visual culture. The mission of this course is to interrogate in an applied manner how we can utilize different media tools to get a message across. Science Fiction is the literary genre that will be applied to these different semiotic systems. Maximum number of students: 12.